twice removed

visions efface

as a passing maiden

whose natural ebullience sparks

the embers of youthful masculinity

and forms a resolute resolve

to play the demigod

on the alters of Eros



no more innocent an ink

did grace the parchment

how indelible!

in the belly of the day

in perfect harmony, a poem wrote

that ran;

''let us meet,where the rock crumbles

and when the dawn cracks

and see the sun set in our lives.''



so each year he ran,

where the rock crumbled

when the dawn cracked

and saw the sun set in his life.



beauty fades away

like the sands of time

it goes away

and the past comes to haunt

the letters unread

the unfulfilled pleas

and desperation ignites until



that year she ran

where the rock crumbles

when the dawn cracked

to see if the sun had set



oh how the story goes

and there was love untold

upon the young and the old